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    Why do we use COM? Mostly we try not to. In what places does it exist? Painful legacy codebases, generally. Commented May 9, 2011 at 9:40
  • @carson actully i am developing a monitoring software where i need to fetch values of "COM" objects. Hence the new found Quest .. Commented May 9, 2011 at 9:54
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    If I remember correct, of the best 3 web articles on COM, 2 was on MSDN (some old magazine article) and 1 was on CodeProject... obviously there are hundreds of other somewhat useful ones, so it's like finding needle in haystack. (and thanks Google for returning only sites in the ".com" TLD when I search for "COM"...) Commented May 10, 2011 at 3:18
  • @Carson63000 So true it hurts... going to go cry in a corner now. Commented Nov 7, 2013 at 22:55